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Europe’s $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard Has Begun
(europeanbusinessmagazine.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Just as long as I don't have to carry a bunch of CCs because I don't know what store takes what. Then they will all have different policies, security issues, fraud protection will vary, etc.
As said in the article, in Western Europe you can already use Wero to bypass those and it is spreading in Europe. In France, for the past 40 years, the "CB" network has been available for every basic bank payment card, which is also Independent from the Americans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CB_Bank_Card_Group I think the new initiative will spread, unify and simplify things.